Kemi Badenoch Says ‘Nowhere Is Better Than Britain To Be Black’

Kemi Badenoch has insisted that Britain is the best country in the world to be black, claiming Labour wanted to “bend the knee before this altar of intolerance”, and invoked the words of American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King.

Badenoch, who is also Equalities Minister, used her conference speech in Manchester to claim that only the Tories “tell the truth” on race.

She said: “I tell my children that this is the best country in the world to be black because it is a country that sees people and not labels.”

TalkTV’s Mike Graham is joined by broadcaster and commentator Afua Hagan and culture writer Dr Rakib Ehsan to discuss the matter.

Afua thinks there is a bit of “gaslighting” going on here by Badenoch as she lists the evidence that “proves her statement otherwise”.

“Black people are twice as likely to live in poverty and be unemployed, 87% of them feel as though they have worse health outcomes and black women are four to five times more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts”.

Afua concludes: “We’d love to think we don’t judge people by their skin colour but unfortunately that isn’t the reality for a lot of black people living in Britain”.

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